Psalms 79:3
Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
In Context
2before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us. 1
4O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant? 1
Cross References
Psalms 141:7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until you recompense me.
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah 16:4They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.
Jeremiah 34:20which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:2-6
Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be… Read the whole commentary →